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Fighting Through the Fear-Mongering: What Is Genetic Engineering?
What Is It? There’s been a lot of talk lately in the news about genetic engineering (aka, genetic modification), about its promise and its pitfalls and everything in between, so it’s a concept we all...
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A Glimpse of Our Future in Space
Is This the Future? In many ways, humanity is at a turning point, and one of the sectors in which this fact is made most palpable is in space exploration. In recent years, we have landed on a comet,...
View ArticleThe Rio Olympics Go High-Tech [INFOGRAPHIC]
High-speed cameras, smart rings, brain-zapping headphones, and virtual reality. With all eyes focused on the athletes at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, let's take a look at some of the new technology that's...
View ArticleMoon Phases and Phenomena [INFOGRAPHIC]
We've stared at it, howled at it, and composed poems to it…we've even landed on it. The Moon fascinates us with its phases, eclipses, and changes of color. It's inspired countless inventive myths and...
View ArticleDubai: City of the Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
Sky-piercing towers, Hyperloop transports, Robot Olympics, driverless cars, and 3D-printed buildings—these are just the least of the many futuristic projects ambitious emirate is undertaking. Here's a...
View ArticleOther Earths: The Best Exoplanet Candidates for Life [INFOGRAPHIC]
With the discovery of Proxima b, astronomers have finally found a potentially habitable planet around the nearest star to Earth. In honor of that finding, we've compiled a list of the most promising...
View ArticleSuper Materials of Tomorrow [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Second Industrial Revolution is at hand. Advanced new materials—such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and transparent aluminum—promise to change the world with their near-miraculous properties....
View ArticleSo You Want to Live Forever? [INFOGRAPHIC]
The dream of eternal life has been with us for a very long time. Now, thanks to new drug discoveries and technological innovations, we're rapidly approaching the time when growing old will be a thing...
View ArticleThe Science of Searching for Exoplanets [INFOGRAPHIC]
They tug, transit, eclipse, reflect, and microlense. Some shine faintly in the infrared. The bottom line is: exoplanets are hard to find. But astronomers have developed some pretty clever techniques...
View ArticleThe Straddling Bus: China’s Futuristic Transport System [INFOGRAPHIC]
In China, they have a new motto for defeating traffic congestion: rise above it. And they mean that quite literally. Here's a look at the car-swallowing, traffic jam-defeating "Transit Elevated...
View ArticleDeep Ocean Dwellers [INFOGRAPHIC]
Giant cephalopods. Ancient sharks. Fang-filled maws, fossil species, and missing links. The deep ocean is an alien world within a world—and we've barely scratched its surface. Come along as we descend...
View ArticlePill Robots: The Future of Non-Invasive Surgery [INFOGRAPHIC]
In the U.S. alone, the incidence of children swallowing dangerous "button batteries" is on the rise. But a new technology involving ingestible "pill robots" may be the solution to these...
View ArticleWhen the Earth Caught Fire [INFOGRAPHIC]
Gigantic tsunamis, deadly bolides, seismic shocks, raging firestorms and a nuclear winter—these were just a few of the headaches the dinosaurs had to experience about 66 million years ago. We've broken...
View ArticleVoyage to a Planet-Killer [INFOGRAPHIC]
It may be NASA's most ambitious deep space mission yet: rendezvous with a potentially Earth-impacting asteroid, map its features and orbital parameters, and snag a piece of its surface in a dangerous...
View ArticleSpace Submarines: Exploring Alien Seas [INFOGRAPHIC]
Deep sea exploration isn't just for marine biologists anymore. Saturn's moon Titan is covered in seas of liquid hydrocarbons, and Europa and Enceladus likely harbor immense subglacial oceans. Here's a...
View ArticleCosta Rica: Pioneering a Renewable Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
An entire country powered by nothing but renewable sources of energy. Sounds impossible? In 2015, Costa Rica did just that—running fossil-free for 299 days. By 2021, this Central American republic...
View ArticleThe House of 2016: The Smartest Gadgets in the Room(s) [INFOGRAPHIC]
Our homes are getting "smarter" every day. They have smart security systems, smart lighting, smart beds—hell, even the toilets are smart. And don't get us started on the heuristic thermostats and...
View ArticleThe World’s Top Space Agencies [INFOGRAPHIC]
There's a new space race, a multilateral contest between many nations to conquer the high frontier. It's the sort of competition that avails the entire species, and as it accelerates with newer...
View ArticleHuman Evolution: A Timeline of the Near and Far Future [INFOGRAPHIC]
It's been said that to apply one's imagination to the possibilities of the future is a valuable spiritual exercise. We heartily agree—and what could be more spiritually gratifying than to imagine the...
View ArticleA Tour of the Solar Neighborhood [INFOGRAPHIC]
Our space probes have reached nearly every corner of the Solar System—so our restless species sets its sights on remoter shores. The recent discovery of a potentially habitable planet around our...
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